MSgt. Gary Solomon, a munitions systems specialist from Kadena AB, Japan, has become the first non-marine to receive the Gung-Ho Award at the Marine Staff Noncommissioned Officer Academy’s Advanced Course on Okinawa. The marines attending the course present the award to the individual they believe demonstrated the most outstanding motivation and teamwork. Solomon decided to take one of two non-marine quotas for the eight-week course.
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.